The Trade Deficit Issue: Oil

John Engler in today’s WSJ:

It is amazing how some presidential candidates are blaming the North American Free Trade Agreement for U.S. job losses. They seem to believe that a substantial part of the three million manufacturing jobs lost since

Uh-oh. CNN has a small problem, this morning. The NZ Herald… not CNN, of course… is reporting:

One of CNN’s star journalists is allegedly embroiled in a bizarre tale of ‘drugs ‘n’ debauchery’.

Richard Quest, a CNN anchor and

BAGHDAD —FOX- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers.

Rice, in

The democrat race boils down to the this.  Mrs Clinton is a habitual liar, and Barack Obama(BO) is a lie.  You have to wonder what some of the voters are smoking in Pennsylvania, David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers:

NANTICOKE, Pa.

Says Billy Beck:

“Yet in recent years Russia has quietly become the world’s top producer of oil, in part by drilling wells as deep as 40,000 feet — far below the graveyards of T-Rex and his Mesozoic buddies.”

No matter

• Look, gang, right off the bat… any server that goes down under 4000 hits in a few hours isn’t worth much.  Are we clear on this?
• For those of you complaining about Bush’s Global Warming day speech… Gang, I

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – Construction union thugs used the state Department of Motor Vehicles database to target nonmember workers and their families for violence, property damage and threats of sexual assault, federal officials said Tuesday as they announced the arrests

• April 15th. Tax day. It occurs to me as I watch the mail delivery guy in his jeep dropping off more bills for me to pay, that the tax bill may be due today, but by some estimates we don’t

“The reality is that people are dying already,” said Jacques Diouf, of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). “Naturally people won’t be sitting dying of starvation, they will react,” he said.

The UN says it takes 232kg of corn

• Scott Fybush over at NERW reports:

*Former MASSACHUSETTS governor Mitt Romney guest-hosted the Paul Harvey show on Thursday, the latest in a line of personalities helping out with the show in the absence of the ailing Harvey, who’s now 89.

OIl is at one hundred twelve dollars a barrel.   The democrats talk about energy independence, but refuse to anything to achieve it, Investor’s Business Daily:

Pennsylvania Democrats must choose between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, both of whom oppose

• That’s OK, Jon. Tell ya what; Greenwald can claim I’m pro-torture, if he likes… because under some conditions I am. .. and for all the moralizing that’s been thrown at the issue, nobody’s ever come up with an even

The much talked about “oil for food’ program had it’s share of problems. Corruption, mostly. Not to be wondered at, give we’re dealing with the UN there. But apparently, trying to exchange food for oil isn’t much better, as James

WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats plan to push legislation this spring that would force the Iraqi government to spend its own surplus in oil revenues to rebuild the country, sparing U.S. dollars.The legislation follows a recommendation by Gen. David Petraeus,

I note Dave Schuler over at OTB this monring, talking about  the price of rice going up.

When I read this post by one of the associate bloggers at Joe Gandelman’s The Moderate Voice, it piqued my interest. The